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Answering the Mysterious Call of An Artist’s Spiritual Vocation
Edward Curtin Friend, hope for the Guest while you are alive.” Kabir, To Be a Slave of Intensity Strange...
“Only little people pay taxes.”
The Wheel of History Turns To understand the present, we must understand the past, and possibly the future direction...
Looking Through the Screen at the World’s Suffering
Most people on this earth live on the edge of an abyss. Life is a daily struggle to stay...
Between Yes and No, Heaven and Earth with Albert Camus on a Spring Morning
Edward Curtin To give up beauty and the sensual happiness that comes with it and devote one’s self exclusively...
Donbass Borderland
A few months after the e-premiere of Russian Hour’s "New York to Donetsk & Back" documentary on Off-Guardian, there’s...
BOOK REVIEW: ‘Gaza’ by Norman G Finklestein
o, the ultimate question is, do Palestinians have the right to symbolically resist slow death punctuated by periodic massacres,...
Why has CounterPunch spiked Andre Vltchek’s ‘Lies of the Empire’?
Ramin Mazaheri I first started reading Andre Vltchek on the website CounterPunch, which is a truly great leftist website…...
War Criminals Anonymous: A Play in One Act
Hope Kesselring Characters: Ned Diamond – Former Assistant Secretary of State, in his sixties, wearing a WCA T-shirt and...
A Taxing Question: Re-reading Piketty
This book by Thomas Piketty was first published in 2014 and became an instant best seller. It had taken...
A Gentrified Little Town Goes to Pot
Edward Curtin In my little town/ I grew up believing/God keeps his eye on us all.” Simon and Garfunkel,...
What Are We Working For “At Eternity’s Gate”?
Ever since I was a young boy, I have wondered why people do the kinds of work they do....
REVIEW: David Ray Griffin, The American Trajectory – Divine or Demonic?
by David Lorimer The American Trajectory – Divine or Demonic David Ray Griffin Clarity Press Inc, 2018,...
The EU: From Social-Democratic Dream to Neoliberal Nightmare
Frank Lee Reviews The Left Case Against the EU by Costas Lapavitsas Britain, in the shape of Conservative Prime...
ODE to 2018
It fogs the mind that Century Twenty-One Already has a sixth of its span run. Those born in the first months...
Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” at 175
Catte This is an updated version of our 2017 article to mark the 175th anniversary of A Christmas Carol...
BOOK REVIEW: Injustice – The Story of the Holy Land Foundation Five
Vacy Vlazna Survive prison I must, for when I come out I would hold no grudges, or hate, or...
In Defense of ‘Conspiracy Theories’
Max Parry To remain innocent may also be to remain ignorant.” John Berger, Ways of Seeing This November 22nd...
Revolution with Lee Camp
Eddison Flame As the saying goes, wars take place when the government tells you who the enemy is; revolutions...
Peterloo and the Realist tradition
Worthy, sumptuously shot, convincingly acted and not without moments of insight – but a tad leaden. That’s my take...
9/11 Unmasked: A Remarkable Review
David Ray Griffin The book 9/11 Unmasked, which I wrote together with Elizabeth Woodworth, has received several excellent reviews....
